Powerful lesson in current federal and Supreme Court dynamics and how vulnerable we are to perversions and nefarious actions that seek to undermine 250 years of our liberal democratic experiment. “We the people” are still the first words…
Second: the consolidation of the unitary executive and insulation from oversight arguably goes back at least to Reagan's inversion of the meaning of "city on a hill", discussed somewhere in here: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r
Briefly, when originally used when Winthrop and later JFK (calling back to Winthrop), it meant, more or less, "everyone can see you and is watching and if you mess up, everyone will know and will judge you for it". When Reagan used it, he meant, "we're already perfect and can't possibly do anything wrong". That's in essence the inversion seen with the federal executive in the United States.
(I've seen a pithy description of the divine right of kings as being "you're God's specialest little child and can do no wrong" while the mandate of heaven is "rule wisely and well or God will send hit squads after you". The US executive was meant to have the mandate of heaven; it's arrogated to itself the divine right of kings.)
Third: Here's a project by a professor emeritus at Mount Holyoke College arguing that many of the issues facing American democracy today stem from aspects of it which even those bemoaning democratic decline celebrate: https://secondratedemocracy.com/the-seventeen-issues-introduction/
Thanks for exposing what I consider to be the “Treachery” of the white ruling classes that set this dictatorship up, using the Supreme Court as their instrument enabling this tyranny!
I would put the SCOTUS behavior more bluntly: the majority despises the “secular left” and makes rulings to facilitate its destruction, Constitution be damned.
If they could be put under a truth spell, I think they would say that the problem they are working to correct is that Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, and even Hamilton were a bunch of misguided leftists.
This is an incredible tribute to the amazing foundational legacy Judge William Young and Retired Supreme Court Justice Breyer continue. This is how Democracy works and our Constitution is safeguarded for our grandchildren and generations to come!
Thanks for the extensive crafting of so many current shortcomings of recent months, what's missing, what's needed and these inspiring examples you've cited. Great stuff!
The federal courts are the only part of the government still functioning properly. The magas thought corrupting the supreme court would be enough cause they can appeal and get them to overturn anything, but they can't make the judges rule in their favor. Imagine sitting on the bench for decades upholding the law and then having to listen to their insane justifications for their illegal behavior. These rebukes get more forceful by the day as its the only real option they have left.
Society is no longer open or free when the judiciary stops being independent
They are EXTREME.
Powerful lesson in current federal and Supreme Court dynamics and how vulnerable we are to perversions and nefarious actions that seek to undermine 250 years of our liberal democratic experiment. “We the people” are still the first words…
First comment: I wonder what, if any, effect the possible breakup of Opus Dei will have on the conservative legal movement in the United States: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3m3eovdxmwk2z
Second: the consolidation of the unitary executive and insulation from oversight arguably goes back at least to Reagan's inversion of the meaning of "city on a hill", discussed somewhere in here: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r
Briefly, when originally used when Winthrop and later JFK (calling back to Winthrop), it meant, more or less, "everyone can see you and is watching and if you mess up, everyone will know and will judge you for it". When Reagan used it, he meant, "we're already perfect and can't possibly do anything wrong". That's in essence the inversion seen with the federal executive in the United States.
(I've seen a pithy description of the divine right of kings as being "you're God's specialest little child and can do no wrong" while the mandate of heaven is "rule wisely and well or God will send hit squads after you". The US executive was meant to have the mandate of heaven; it's arrogated to itself the divine right of kings.)
Third: Here's a project by a professor emeritus at Mount Holyoke College arguing that many of the issues facing American democracy today stem from aspects of it which even those bemoaning democratic decline celebrate: https://secondratedemocracy.com/the-seventeen-issues-introduction/
Thanks for exposing what I consider to be the “Treachery” of the white ruling classes that set this dictatorship up, using the Supreme Court as their instrument enabling this tyranny!
I would put the SCOTUS behavior more bluntly: the majority despises the “secular left” and makes rulings to facilitate its destruction, Constitution be damned.
If they could be put under a truth spell, I think they would say that the problem they are working to correct is that Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, and even Hamilton were a bunch of misguided leftists.
".....the unitary executive theory is fascist bullshit."
Anything ending in "theory" has no place in law or governance.
This is an incredible tribute to the amazing foundational legacy Judge William Young and Retired Supreme Court Justice Breyer continue. This is how Democracy works and our Constitution is safeguarded for our grandchildren and generations to come!
Thanks for the extensive crafting of so many current shortcomings of recent months, what's missing, what's needed and these inspiring examples you've cited. Great stuff!
The federal courts are the only part of the government still functioning properly. The magas thought corrupting the supreme court would be enough cause they can appeal and get them to overturn anything, but they can't make the judges rule in their favor. Imagine sitting on the bench for decades upholding the law and then having to listen to their insane justifications for their illegal behavior. These rebukes get more forceful by the day as its the only real option they have left.